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JoyfulSilence · 46-50, M
I think it will never go away, and become like the seasonal flu, or even the common cold.
Evolution will favor variants that cause less severe disease (since dead people cannot spread it anymore, and sick people are not out and about to spread it more). Also, it will favor a faster spreading variant. Just look at what is happening now, omicron is overtaking delta by spreading faster. Omicron also packs less of a punch.
I suspect everybody will get some version eventually, and keep getting it, and after a year or two it will be just another cold virus. Vaccines may not keep up since the need is less, since few die or get really sick anymore. Or it might be like the flu vaccine, where they just make a new one each year to fight the projected mix of viruses.
Evolution will favor variants that cause less severe disease (since dead people cannot spread it anymore, and sick people are not out and about to spread it more). Also, it will favor a faster spreading variant. Just look at what is happening now, omicron is overtaking delta by spreading faster. Omicron also packs less of a punch.
I suspect everybody will get some version eventually, and keep getting it, and after a year or two it will be just another cold virus. Vaccines may not keep up since the need is less, since few die or get really sick anymore. Or it might be like the flu vaccine, where they just make a new one each year to fight the projected mix of viruses.